Highway Sign Technicians- Anyone Hiring?

[PColumbus73]

Hello! I graduated from a 2 year tech college with a degree in drafting and design technology back in December of last year. I'm currently been working as a taxi driver until I can find a suitable job that fits my education. I've been doodling roads and highways and everything in between since I could pick up a pen. With a lot of help from Zeffy and others here, I've become interested in designing road signs professionally.

Is anyone here employed in such a field?

[adventurernumber1]

Clearly I'm not employed since I'm 14, lol. But Zeffy has been teaching me a lot about making road signs on PowerPoint. I will not lie, he is pretty darn good.

[Zeffy]

With a lot of help from Zeffy and others here, I've become interested in designing road signs professionally.

But Zeffy has been teaching me a lot about making road signs on PowerPoint. I will not lie, he is pretty darn good.

While I'm humbled for the honors here, I just want to remind everyone that I wouldn't be who I am on these forums today without the help and guidance from KEK Inc., myosh_tino, J N Winkler, Alps (in no particular order), and many, many others here who helped me either directly or indirectly to become as great as I am today.

I too am looking for a position like this, but I should probably go to school first. Unfortunately, I feel like my severely limited mathematical skills would not help me in something like CAD or engineering.   

[DaBigE]

Hello! I graduated from a 2 year tech college with a degree in drafting and design technology back in December of last year. I'm currently been working as a taxi driver until I can find a suitable job that fits my education. I've been doodling roads and highways and everything in between since I could pick up a pen. With a lot of help from Zeffy and others here, I've become interested in designing road signs professionally.

Is anyone here employed in such a field?

I kinda am, but it's not the main part of my job. If you don't have a PE license or an engineering degree at the very least, your options will be limited more to the private industry (commercial sign fabricators). In my position, raw sign design opportunities don't come up all that often, and when they do, they're usually only drafts of signs that later get finalized by a state agency.

You also could get in to the traffic visualization, which incidentally is where the majority of my sign designing is for, you wouldn't necessarily need an engineering degree, but rather experience in visualization software (SketchUp, 3D Studio Max, VISSIM, SimTraffic, etc. ...).